Browsing by Author "OLATINWO Taiye Mujidat"

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    EFFECT OF FORMATIVE TEST ON ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IN GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOL, SHIYA, KWARA STATE
    (2023) SIANO, Sabi Zakari; LAARO Yahaya Babatunde; OLATINWO Taiye Mujidat; ISMAIL Aminat Omotola
    This research investigated the effect of formative test on the achievement of students in Agricultural Science in Government Secondary School Shiya, Kwara State, Nigeria. Three hypothesis were formulated and addressed one after the other. Non-equivalent pre-test post-test control group quasi experimental design was adopted for the study. Intact classes purposively selected from the UBE section of the school. (UBE 2A, and UBE 2B), control and experimental groups respectively was involved as the population. The instruments used for this research were pre-test, diagnostic formative tests, parallel formative tests. Agricultural Science Achievement Test. (ASAT) was used as post-test. Findings showed that formative Test significantly improved students’ achievement in Agricultural Science. Analysis of Covariance was used to test the hypotheses, at 0.05 level of significance. The result obtained showed that the group exposed to treatment (Formative Test) performed significantly better than the control 161 group. The second finding shows that the use of practical work in formative test contributed immensely to the achievement rate of the experimental group. So also, gender was found not to be a threat to learning, as there was no significant difference in the performance of male and female students in Agricultural Science. Based on the findings of this study, it was concluded and recommended that formative test should be adopted so as to attain better academic achievements among secondary school students.
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    Influence of Socio-Emotional Skills Development on the Academic Performance of Pre-School Children in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State
    (2024) SIANO Sabi Zakari; AYANDELE Julius Kehinde; BELLO Olaitan Stephen; OLATINWO Taiye Mujidat
    This study assessed the influence of social and emotional development skills of Pre-basic school children in Ilorin south, Kwara State. Specifically, the study ascertained the emotional development skills among Pre-Basic school children; determined the social development skills; analyzed differences between the social and emotional development on the basis of gender and school type. Descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The target population comprised Pre-Basic Schools children. Stratified random sampling technique was employed to select a total of 60 respondents. The research instrument used was an adapted observation checklist. Its reliability co-efficient was 0.79. Descriptive statistics were employed to answer the research questions raised, while t-test was employed to analyze the null hypotheses generated at 0.05 levels of significance. Findings showed that children developed the social and emotional skills of controlling, sharing feelings with others, responding to others with care, being sensitive to how others react to situations, recognizing feelings of others, and empathizing with them. The development of these social-emotional skills enhances their academic performance. There was a significant difference in the level of social and emotional development skills in Pre-Basic School, based on school type. Similarly, there was a significant difference in the social and emotional development skills based on gender. Based on the findings, it was recommended that more social-emotional skills should be developed among the children in Pre-Basic schools so as to further enhance their academic performance. This could be done by developing activities that could sustain them socially and emotionally such as creativity and play way method.